Services
ESG strategy and growth services, built around you
No two firms are the same, and neither are their ESG to ESG journeys. Our solutions framework is agile, so your support is bespoke: start small and low risk, then scale up to a full enterprise programme.
01 · Start here
ESG to ESG training
You need to test me, and I need to test you. So let’s start small and low risk.
An interactive baseline-builder session for your board, C-suite and key influencers. Ideally a face-to-face one-day session, or bite-size learning online.
- Build 101 knowledge in Environmental, Social and Governance
- Put the return-on-investment opportunity into context for your firm
- Work through the headlines of integrating ESG into an exciting strategy for growth
02 · Full transformation
The ESG to ESG Programme
A full end-to-end enterprise solution, scaled to the needs identified in your ESG33 Thermometer assessment, leading your firm step by step through the change process that makes ESG to ESG stick.
Take the ESG33 Thermometer
Where we start: an ESG33 maturity assessment, an ESG and/or growth strategy health check, and a gap analysis of where you are, what you’re already doing, and where you can and should get to. The solution stack is then co-created with you around your leadership’s commitment, time, resources and aspiration.
Generate your materiality assessment
A critical step. What should you focus on? What do you control, and what do you influence? Above all, what do your stakeholders think, mapped by power and influence and benchmarked against competitors, peers and your industry?
Evaluate, enhance or establish your growth strategy
Immersive, interactive and intensive. A light-touch evaluation decides whether your strategy needs the odd enhancement or establishing from first principles: where to compete, how to win, capabilities and how to change, including value propositions, competitor analysis, action plans, targets, ARCI and robustness testing.
Review governance, organisationally and operationally
- Embed ESG to ESG in policies, processes and procedures
- Review commercial decision-making in sales and project delivery
- Reframe the board agenda on an explicit ESG footing
- Supply chain due diligence and supplier training
- Transparency testing with the ESG33 Greenwash Extinguisher
Strengthen your transformation capability
This is a change project of real magnitude. It needs the right sponsors, advocates, professionals and belief. We assess the capability you’ll need to make it stick, what you already have, and the gaps to fill.
Baseline, measure and set targets
There are oodles of systems, frameworks and certifications. Which are right for your firm, when, and to what extent? Your materiality assessment sets what to baseline, measure and target, then we agree measurement methods, internal versus external validation, resourcing, data warehousing and dashboards.
Strategise your communications and marketing
Don’t keep it a secret. With your comms team, we agree why, how, where, what and when to tell stakeholders what you’ve done, what you’re doing and what you want to achieve, then turn to marketing the journey for growth.
03 · Capability
Growth training
Following a gap analysis with you, targeted training packages build the commercial muscle that turns strategy into results.
- Sales process: business development and work winning
- Accountabilities, responsibilities, roles and organisational design
- Key accounts: selection, management and leadership
- Commercial negotiation
- Value proposition development
- Accelerating cash
04 · Inorganic growth
Acquisition advisory
Advice on the attractiveness of acquisition, from first screening to integration, with ESG and culture assessed as rigorously as the numbers.
Financial valuation and legal support are provided by specialist partners.
- Country and industry assessments
- Value creation logic analysis
- Target long-listing, analysis and short-listing
- Engagement with targets
- Acquisition strategy, planning and execution
- Due diligence on commercial risk and opportunity, technical excellence, people and culture, and governance robustness
- Leading, managing or planning the integration
How we work
The ESG33 way
Seriously: ESG33 will not work with firms that are harming the environment, exploiting people or greenwashing their governance. For everyone else, here’s what to expect.
Ethical
Honesty, morality and, above all, high integrity.
Enriching
Collaborative advice as an embedded, trusted partner to your firm.
Straight
It will be uncomfortable at times, but always with positive intent.
Exacting
No time for poor quality or opaque effort.
Scientific
Trust the method, note the assumptions, quality-assure the outputs.
Surprise-free
Progressive engagement and assurance, taking key stakeholders on the journey.
Guided
An ‘access all areas’ pass across your leadership team.
Sample first
An initial pilot gives you flexibility while we both explore a longer-term relationship.
Shared success
An incentivised partner, tying your performance to my reward.
Not sure where to start?
Most clients begin with ESG to ESG training or an ESG33 Thermometer assessment. Let’s talk about which fits.